WINONA, Minn. – Grassroots organizers with the Winona Indivisible are beginning online workshops next week against President Trump’s authoritarian bullying. The workshops are part of a nation-wide effort, “One Million Rising,” to maintain momentum from the earlier “Hands Off,” No King” and “Good Trouble” rallies. Those rallies drew hundreds to Winona’s Windom Park. The upcoming workshops, the organization said, will emphasize strategic logic in the practice of non-cooperation basics of community organizing and campaign design. The national goal is to train 1 million citizens in effective engagement. To register. The Winona workshops:
> July 16: On how role of individuals can in coordinated strategic action.
> July 30: On training others in community resistance.
> August 13: On integrating local action into a national network.
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Community organizing. Goal is mobilizing to snuff Trump’s power grabs. The President, say organizers, is attacking basic American cultural values and dismantling core institutions.
Verbatim
Winona Indivisible: “Authoritarian forces across the country are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: Mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us — not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities.”